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scrounge around
scrounge around (for someone or something)
Fig. to look around all over for someone or something. I scrounged around for Jamie, but she was nowhere to be found. I will try to scrounge around for a replacement part that will do the job.
scrounge around
Forage about in an effort to obtain something at no cost, as in We scrounged around their kitchen looking for a snack. It derives from the dialectal scrunge, "steal." [Colloquial; c. 1900]
Common Names:
Name | Gender | Pronounced | Usage |
StaŠA | | - | Serbian, Slovene, Croatian |
Ahmose | | AH-mos (English) | Ancient Egyptian (Anglicized) |
Martinus | | - | Ancient Roman, Dutch |
Kishor | | - | Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Nepali |
Ursula | | ['ə:sjulə] | |
NoÉ | | no-E (French, Spanish) | French, Spanish, Portuguese |